The Sea of Clouds
By RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (74001)
Daytona Beach, Florida
May 26, 2019 9:26pm CST
No this is not about the reflection of clouds upon the water. If any of you have been to the Grand Canyon perhaps you have seen this phenomenon. At the Grand Canyon, there are great changes in elevation and parts of the park experience different weather conditions. The coldest and wettest area here is the North Rim which has an elevation of over 8,200 feet and about 8 miles away at 2,460 feet Phantom Ranch is the hottest and driest area. As a result of which there is an unusual phenomenon that occurs at Grand Canyon when cool air winds up getting trapped beneath a warm air layer and it creates what looks like a sea of clouds.
Has anyone been there and seen this?
You can see more images of this remarkable phenomenon here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/12/a-sea-of-clouds-fills-the-grand-canyon/100640/
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@RasmaSandra (74001)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 May 19
It sort of looks like what you would see outside of a plane window @Tampa_girl7
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@RasmaSandra (74001)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 May 19
It happens at the Grand Canyon when cool air gets trapped beneath warm air @Janet357
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@RasmaSandra (74001)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 May 19
@Janet357 glad you enjoyed
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@Janet357 (75656)
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27 May 19
@RasmaSandra i would love to stare at it nonstop. One of the wonders i have seen. Thank you for posting this.
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@crossbones27 (48506)
• Mojave, California
27 May 19
How neat, and bet if om a a boat be foggy. 
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fogs, clouds dive enjoying and envying the cool , blue atmosphere
, lovely but scary.@crossbones27 (48506)
• Mojave, California
27 May 19
@cacay1 Being on a boat where it is that foggy is scary. Being on a boat in the middle of no where all sea sick is scary enough when its clear. Glad that is by shore. Take me home skipper.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
27 May 19
No I did not make it there when I went west.
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@DocAndersen (54407)
• United States
27 May 19
It is stunning in person. I stood and didn't move for more than an hour.
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@RasmaSandra (74001)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 May 19
I can certainly imagine that @DocAndersen
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@allknowing (130292)
• India
28 May 19
I have been to Grand Canyon a few years ago but did not notice what you have described here.
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@RasmaSandra (74001)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 May 19
Wonderful photo @allknowing
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@GreatMartin (23675)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
27 May 19
Mother Nature never has and never will cease to amaze me!!!
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
27 May 19
I have been to the Grand Canyon but did not see that.
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@LindaOHio (158237)
• United States
27 May 19
I've been to the Grand Canyon but haven't seen this beautiful sight.
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